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How to write on NTFS format partition in Ubuntu?

NTFS is Windows NT File System format. It has more performance, reliability, and compatibility not found in the FAT file system. For default, Ubuntu doesn’t support NTFS format.

How can I write on NTFS format disks?

If you are using Ubuntu Feisty (7.04), you can’t read or write on NTFS format. You have to download the additional package for this function. These installation packages are ‘ntfs-3g‘ and ‘ntfs-config‘.

After the installation process is done, a setting menu will occur. You can choose to enable the ‘write’ function.

You can change the configuration from ‘ntfs-config’ screen.

Open menu ‘Application > System Tools > NTFS Configuration Tool‘.

After ‘ntfs-config’ screen is displayed, select partition that you want to configure and click on ‘Apply‘.

Then when NTFS write support configuration tool displayed, choose both ‘Enable write support for internal device‘ and ‘Disable write support for external device‘.

ATENTION:

Enable write support for internal device

You will be able to write data on NTFS format disk (internal hard disk and shared data in windows network).

Disable write support for external device

If you enable it, sometimes your USB External Hard disk will not be recognized by Ubuntu. Actually, this is the problem that I got in the moment (I use external HD Maxtor One Touch 100GB). When I wrote this article, I haven’t do googling yet to find the solution. So, please write comments if you find the solution earlier than me.